Create 5 supporting characters. Theses are the flat characters that show up in the story to point the main character to their goal.
How simple and flat are they?
Have you planned out too much for such a simple character?
Tag: charater
Not Comfortable in Their Own Skin
Brainstorm a character that is defined as “not comfortable in their own skin.”
Who could this be?
When would they have lived?
Why are they not comfortable in their own skin?
Super Hero
Create a character that is a super hero. Give them powers, a look, a personality, and weakness.
Could you see this character as a superhero?
What would you change to make them a hero?
Would they be better to show in a different story?
Same Character New Story
Find one of your stories you like and write a story about the same main character, but at a different point in their lives.
Does this affect the original story?
Are you able to keep the character continuity working? (ie does the character change between the 2 stories to fit the story or does the story change to fit the character?)
If continuity is not working what event happened between the 2 stories your readers are missing out on, and should you instead be writing about that event?
Today’s Character
Create a character that could have existed today. Someone that was born of this day and culture.
Write about character.
Image Character
Create a character from the following image.
Character Practice
Take a character, a charter of any kind, and write a story of their lives. It could be only up to the point in that charters life where you plan to write a story, or it could be there full life story including any stories you plan to put that charter in mentioned.
The idea is to flesh out your character to the point they could almost be a real person you are talking about.
Opposite Siblings
create 2 characters that are opposites. then make them siblings, make sure to change their personalities just enough to meld them into the same family and their new circumstances. be sure to add some kind of conflict between the two.
examples:
- sister that has to raise younger brother.
- older brother that imposes himself on to younger bother to keep him safe.
- older sister that runs away to join the circus and leaves younger sister to take care of the family.
- a heroic strong older brother, sinister weak younger brother.
Character With Problems
Create a character based on your life with one kind of physiological problem. Write how their life has changed compared to yours. See List Of Mental Disorders for list of physiologic problems.
If you have physiological problem write about a you that does not have that physiological problem.
Create Charater
Create a human character from the the following 3 words:
Flamboyant Feathery Phoenix